The Reporting Norms improve the quality, transparency, and usefulness of impact reports for asset owners and allocators, helping them use impact performance information in investment and engagement decisions, monitoring, and their own reporting

To get started, report users can:

01. learn

Watch this introductory video and learn more with the Reporting Norms e-course

02. use

Review the Reporting Norms with your fund managers and engage them in a constructive discussion about what improvements to prioritize during the next reporting cycle

Consider how following the Reporting Norms could help enhance your next impact report

03. share

Share the Reporting Norms with co-investors in your fund managers, and engage them in conversations about how to streamline reporting requests of fund managers

Inform associations and networks of asset owners and allocators, as well as policymakers and regulators, about the Reporting Norms and the growing community of practice around them

Further Resources for Asset Owners and Allocators

Pensions for Purpose

Pensions for Purpose

Pensions for Purpose partnered with Impact Frontiers and the Operating Principles of Impact Management to engage the asset owner community in the UK to identify barriers to impact integration and find ways to overcome them. Through in-person masterclasses, interviews with more than twenty asset owners and allocators, and a series of Community Interest Group meetings, Pensions for Purpose created an Impact Lens research report to advance asset owners’ integration of impact practices and performance.  

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impact capital managers

Impact Capital Managers

Impact Capital Managers partnered with Impact Frontiers to engage its community of asset owners and allocators to assess how they use impact reports provided by fund managers, and what they believe would make impact reports even more decision-useful. Read the report.

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